Fixed
- Dragging on a page works again. In 0.2.41, dragging a card on a Jira or Trello board, a link, an image or an audio track froze the page until you reloaded it. Thanks, @LuisUrrutia.
- Clicking − on a row in a pinned group no longer crashes Ardia.
- The first launch after an update is no longer two to four seconds slower. macOS checks a new version before it runs for the first time; Install and Relaunch now gets that check done while you wait for the restart, so the new window opens as fast as usual.
- Full screen has no grey bar across the top. Entering full screen left an empty bar until the menu bar came down once, and revealing the menu bar slid an opaque bar in under it, over videos too. The window now slides under the menu bar, as in Dia. Thanks, @LuisUrrutia and @narasaka.
- Background tabs sleep sooner, so many open tabs hold less memory. Only the four tabs you used last stay loaded for a while; other background tabs sleep after 20 minutes, and tabs in profiles you aren’t looking at sleep first. Tabs that are playing, recording, in a split or holding unsaved text never sleep.
- Switching profiles no longer stutters or flickers. With a lot of tabs open the switch stuttered, and the window tint and the sidebar snapped back for a frame or two as it finished.
- Sync writes far less to disk. It saved its whole state every few seconds; it now writes each change on its own and the full state about once an hour.
- Sync asks for Touch ID or your password before it shows, copies or saves your recovery phrase, and synced passwords stay sealed until the moment they’re saved on your Mac. Passwords sync between Macs once both run this version.
- A page can’t take over another tab’s picture in picture, and notifications only show for sites you allowed.
- Permission prompts ignore clicks for their first half second and show the site’s full address, so a page can’t trick you into allowing something.
- The address bar never runs
javascript:you type or paste, cuts long site names from the start instead of the end, hides a username or password in the address and always shows the port. - Renaming a group or tab ends when you click the empty sidebar, keeping the new name, instead of staying open until a second click opened a new tab.
New
- Onboarding sets Ardia up like the browser you’re coming from. Pick Arc, Dia, Zen, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Brave or Edge and its tab layout, address bar, new tabs, search engine and more come along, so you only answer the questions that are left. It opens with the meadow from ardia.dev: a sunrise in light mode, a moonlit night in dark mode.
- Importing from Dia brings your open and pinned tabs along with bookmarks, history and passwords, in one step.
- Settings shows the everyday options first. The rest sit behind Show advanced settings at the bottom of the sidebar, and search still finds everything.
- An insecure download asks before it finishes. It waits in Downloads with Keep and Discard instead of sitting there with a progress bar that never moves.
- The selected Top App is Liquid Glass with a ring in its icon’s colours, in the sidebar and the tab strip, like Dia.
- Make a custom theme right on onboarding’s “Pick a color” screen, with the same colour wheel as Settings › Profiles.
Smaller
- Sidebar tab titles use the full width of the row until you hover it.
- Hovering the address field no longer pushes the zoom, translate or camera indicators aside.
- The selected Top App’s ring no longer shows a coloured fringe at its corners.
- The Downloads panel shows the insecure-download warning in full.
- Onboarding’s browsers fit in two rows of four again, without scrolling.
- Crash reports say what went wrong, so crashes can be traced back to the code; they still carry nothing about you or your pages.